Arriving officers located two separate collisions. One collision involved a single vehicle that had fatally struck the bull.

The second collision involved five vehicles. Three people were transported to a hospital with minor injuries, CHP said

It’s not clear where the animal came from, but a local rancher speculates all our stormy weather may have had something to do with it.

“Maybe because of this terrible winter … erosion underneath the fence, the hill slid and the cow got out that way…It scares us all to death when they get out on the freeway,” said local rancher Nick Compaglia.

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Regardless of what the bull was “worth,” of course it would have been confused in unfamiliar territory, and afraid to see cars whizzing past, and it certainly felt pain when hit by a car. What a pity that the first car(s) to notice the bull did not stop and put their blinkers on, to shut down the freeway until CHP could corral the bull. That was done for horses last week in the daytime, on 680.